A30167:55
Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and…
Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and that he undertook to accomplish by himself the eternal redemption of sinners also, that the Lord Jesus addressed himself to this work, with undeniable demonstrations that he performed the same : objections to the contrary answered / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. Fourthly, What it was for Jesus to be raised thus up of God to Israel.
Here we have two things to consider of.
1. Who Israel is. 2. What it was for Jesus to be raised up unto them.
1. Who Israel is. By Israel sometimes we should understand the whole Stock of Jacob, the Natural Children of his Flesh; for that name they have of him; for he obtained it when he wrestled with the Angel and prevailed (Gen. 32.) and remained with his Seed in their Generations.
2. By Israel we are to understand all those that God hath promised to Christ. The Children of the Promise are counted for the Seed, the elect Jews and Gentiles. These are called the Israel of God, ⟨p. 6⟩and the Seed of Abraham, whom Jesus in special regarded in his undertaking the work of Mans Redemption,